resistance or terrorism? the us and israel have their narrative, but what is the truth? who is the real terrorist? this is not just a war of stolen land, why do you think little boys are going stones at tank? and we'll never really know how many people are dead, they drop bombs on innocent girls while they sleep in their bed, israel is a terror state and terrorists that testify my television, how many more resolutions have to be violated, how many more children have to be annihilated, this is not a war, it is systematic genocide, but whatever they try, palestine will never die palestinest free palestine. hello, i'm chris williamson and

you're watching palestine declassified. our twice weekly program exposes the israeli regime's global war against solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. in today's program, we'll be asking, is the zinist entity on the brink of collapse? after year long campaign of genocide in gaza, israel's economy is intatters and its stated mission to destroy hamas has failed, as latifa abut will explain an first report before the 7th of october 2023 and the launch of al-aqsa flood by the forces of the palestinian resistance things looked very different. after year of pursuing the alleged objective of defeating hamas, what does the government of the colony have to show for itself? first of all, the economy is in crisis. the imf estimated israel's gdp at $564 billion us dollars and it's gdp per

capita at $58,270 in 2023, the 13th highest in the world, figure comparable to other highly developed countries, but in the last quarter of 2023, according to figures from the regime's central bureau of statistics, contracted annual 19.4%. the construction of sector, for example, slowed down by nearly a third in the first two months of the war. and agriculture has taken a hit too, with production down by a quarter in some areas. it is estimated that up to $60,00 israeli companies may have to close in 2024 due to staff shortages, supply chain disruptions and waining business confidence. the port of a-lat in the south of the designs occupation entity declared bankrupcy in july due to an 85% drop in activity as a direct result of unsada law blockade on red sea. shipping: if

the northern front is opened with hizballah, all of israel's ports will be an operative, notably hafer. the one exception is ashdot in the center of the colony, though it is easily reachable by missiles from lebanon and yemen. the normalization of the zionist entity with its neighbors has been thrown into reverse by december, it was being said that the normalization was now in a reset situation and in september. this year, even the de facto ruler of the saudi regime stated that the kingdom will not establish ties with israel until a palestinian state has been created. the deal brokered by china between saudi arab, iran also pulled the saudi regime out of yemen, allowing ansad allah to launch its stunningly successful blockade on the red sea. perhaps most notable, the image of the regime and its military, sophisticated military... strategists has been thoroughly

undermined by the launch of ala flood itself, and by the evident fact that after year, the palestinian resistance in ghazza is not defeated. on june 19th, the spokes person for the israel occupation forces, rear admiral daniel hagari, told channel 13 news that the aim of eradicating razza's leadership was unattainable. this business of destroying hamas, making hamas disappear, it's simply throwing sand. the eyes of the public. anyone who thinks we can eliminate hamas is wrong. after year of genocide, zionism faces defeat. joining me in the studio as usual is our residence expert david miller who's widely regarded as the uk's pretty critic of israel. david's a senior research fellow at the center for islam and global affairs at istanbul zam university and is a co-director of the lobby and watch dog spinwatch. our guest contributor today is batol sabati. batul is human rights activist and political analyst with a special. interest in the

middle east and foreign policy and she blogs at stances to salvation. welcome to the show. david, did you think a year ago that the economy of the settler colony would would be showing signs of strain? "i don't think any of us imagined when we first saw the signs of the uh breakout from gaza of the palestinian resistance forces, what would ensue uh, and of course the fact that the economy of the zinic entity is feeling the strain is very instructive, of course it's it's a multiple uh group of factors which have caused this, it's not just the question of the of the conflict and the diversion of personnel into fighting, it's also been that huge numbers of people have left, large numbers of of..." have to had to remove themselves from the north and indeed around gaza, so you see this the footage of the of the tomatoes and greenhouses in kibutzin beside gaza, rotting on the vines, because there's no one to pick them, there's no one to take them to market, because the whole thing is falling to part to bits, so that that is that's the problem that

the economy is falling to bits and of course we didn't anticipate that year ago, no we did, i'm sure we didn't, but betul, what do you make of the uh contraction in the... the settler colony: stability is the most important factor in maintaining a strong economy. without stability, the burdens and costs increase due to lack of insurance, and there's less of incentive for investments to take place in the long term as a rusult of the fear of the outbreak of war expansion. post october the 7th, there has been no trust nor credibility in the entity, it's seen essentially as a high security risk, and there's also that element of a bad. ation globally as well, it's now become a parier entity. the global boycott movement has only intensified, we've seen student encampments calling for their universities to divest, so companies will need to think about how maintaining ties with the entity may end up landing them on the boycott list, and

yakovsin who's an israeli economist said that the total cost of the war could actually amount to $120 billion dollars, that's 20% of the country's gdp. this was several months ago, so the status quo post october. we're seeing airlines cancelling flights, hotels half empty, businesses failing, and the israeli business information company, co-face bdi even reported that some 46,00 businesses have closed since the start of the war, that amounts to 75% of them being small businesses, so it's really taking a toll on the lives of the israeli settlers, david, i mean the the bankrupcy of of it seems to be a real indication doesn't it of the designist? economy's weakness, well i mean the the stunning success of the the blockade by anseralla so that 85% of the uh the trades stopped, they've declared bankrupcy, nothing, nothing is happening there, and that that is a real block on the ability of them to to to

supply themselves as well as uh on the question of their their economy, and it's an indication that actually there's not really very much more that needs to be done before the whole economy collapses, you've only got two major more ports. in the north ashdon hafa and of course they are now of course coming under attack uh in particular from from uh but also from uh and indeed even the the islamic resistance in iraq indeed indeed well batul how effective would you say that ansara the ansara blacade on the red sea's actually been right the region rejects the occupation entity as a planted foreign occupier. "the entity is essentially contained and can now only deal with egypt and jordan through its lands, or it can deal through its ports. due to the yemeni naval attacks, 85% of elat's port in the south has become dysfunctional, so it's effectively now bankrupt, and now what we're seeing is the

port of haifa, which is in the mediterranean sea, is now also coming under threat, this you know former bustling port, which is major hub of israeli import export where massive..." containerships would stop, the times of israel has actually stated that this port has become still during this war, so there really is this element of instability and panic. well, david, i mean, the the occupation forces, air of complete military superiority is, it's sort of evaporated, hasn't it then? well, it has and of course that is evaporated a kind of slow burn to some extent by the fact that year later they still haven't uh reached their their objective alleged. detective of defeating what they call hamas, which of course in reality is six or seven different palestinian armed groups, but also happened in in decisive moments where uh there's been footage has appeared from within gaza of large numbers of casualties, the famous footage of the the naval special unit of the

the so-called occupation forces, someone being captured and dragged through the tunnels by a hamas fighter in flip flops and that's an indication of the of the of that. but most importantly i think has been the the the footage that has been of uh of palestinian fighters coming out up out of fox holes and running sometimes in trainers sometimes in flip flops to to markaver tanks and planting bombs. them and the the the elimination of huge numbers of tanks has been an indication that actually the traditional military technology which they have isn't working to destroy a gorilla army which has lived all the way through this and continues to fight. yes, absolutely. well, but bet all um, what do you make of of current and indeed former leading figures in the cionist occupation forces as well as mosaid personnel, seemingly conceding that hamas cannot be defeated. right, so these leading figures, they recognize the real components

present within the resistance that is effectively making them strong. um, the hazdan resistance forces have deep faith in their goals, they enjoy very high morale, they've proven that they're ready for sacrifice, they're filled with anger that's resulting from this occupation and this injustice, and so what we're seeing in ghaza is really gorilla warfare against invaders with light arms and we're seeing them come at zero distance from their enemy, so they have really demonstrated the ability to adapt in the most difficult circumstances. well, our next report addresses the changing attitudes towards designist entity and the growing extremism in israel's society. zionism faces defeat in every sphere. the most visible and tangible change in the west has been the erosion of support for the declining entity. this has manifested first, of all in a significant polarization, the mass of the global public has become more pro-

palestinian and more vocal about it, but equally, there is a small countertendency of zists to become even more extreme. all right, now we're stepping the regular programming now to go live to pakistan. let's go to the pakistani city of karachi, there is huge gathering of... the pakistani people their a big rally in support of the palestinians and in condemnation of these reality atrocities and crimes being perpetrated against palestinians and against uh lebanese these days. well, i should mention that this is the eve of the october 7th operation since the... gaza genocide started by israel and the us and we will be definitely expecting to

witness such scenes and as you already see it's started uh marking the genocidal war against the palestinians and so far if i can give you the statistics that we have the latest one that we have here according to uh palestinian health ministry in the gaza's trip. in just matter of one day, three massacers have been have taken place against palestinian civilians in the gaza strip. in the course of which 45 palestinians have been murtered and 256 injured. so that means that the dead till in the past year in gaza, it's the registered one of course has reached. 41,870 and also the number of the wounded 97,

166. of course it goes about saying that there are thousands of people, women, children, the elderly who are still under the rubble, and they are presumed that the statistics i gave you, it's just the official one, and the people whose bodies have been identified, those who lost their lives in the hospital. after being wounded and this kind of official listics that comes out of the gaza health ministry, the actual number of dead is much greater than that for the reason i gave you, so uh, every friday we see the yeminies out in their droves, the same scenes in different yemen cities, especially insa, and we are, of course, speaking of yemen, we are expecting address by the leader of yemen's. we're expecting the address to uh

start in 15 16 minutes time from now so both in west asia region and elsewhere in the world including the western world you have been watching such events take place condemming. the israeli aggression and crimes committed in against the palestinians and uh the past couple of weeks against the lebanese, so and city, this is not in west asia, not in europe, i was just telling you that to have been watching these images in different parts of the world, and there you go, it should be in sweden, i suppose, yep, gathalburg and sweden, as you see there,

there are palestinian flags that the protests are holding and raising. and you can also see the pictures of nasarala who was lately assassinated by the israeli regime, so these pictures speak volume for themselves and we simply see the atmosphere and you get the sense of what the majority of people around the world feel about. what's going on against the lebines and against the palestinians by the us, by us arms being used by and also money, of course, logistics, intelligence, and all that provided to this will regime, the result of which is the loss of life of a

large number of human beings to whom seemingly human rights do not up. why just because they're not maybe blue eyeed and fairhaired like the case of ukrainians, so more and more palestinians and lebanese are losing their lives and majority of them are civilians and maybe out of a couple of hundred or thousands of civilian losses, loss of life you could see one or two commanders or members of the resistance fighters also. assassinated this way in the indiscriminate attacks by these regime, beat in the gaza strip and the west bank or the dahya neighborhood for instance out of of the lebanese capital city and also south lebanon and this is how the people in different parts

the world feel and pakistan karachi on the left and also sweden on the rights of your screens as we speak, okay now let me uh ask our correspondent in pakistani capital city islamabad nasar khazim to join us and tell the atmosphere and the sentiment among the pakistanis and how they feel. about the recent israely aggression, now sir, thank you, mr. najfi, yes, the sentiments in pakistan are very high, as the first all across the world, the people are celebrating, marking the first anniversary of the october

7, when the israeli forces launched a genocidal campaign in gaza and since then this campaign is going on, we have plan of rallies all across pakistan today as well as for tomorrow to mark this october 7, people are on the streets in karachi at the moment carrying flags of palestine and chanting slogans against the united states as well as the israel and their supporters, people in pakistan are confronting with different issues. but they are united on one platform against israel as the israels continue to carry out barbarism in in gaza since one year, it has been one year since israel has been carrying out attacks on innocent civilians in gaza and has killed more than 42000 people so far, so the sentiments in

pakistan are very high, people are condemning these atrocities, they are calling upon the internet. national organizations to stop this masaka in palestine now as we have seen that as the israel has escalated its war in lebanon as well the people in pakistan are condemming these attacks in lebanon as well, we have seen that the ralies have been held all across pakistan in recent months in recent. especially in the wake of the killing of hammas sorry leader in lebanon people condemned that attacks and the people of pakistan believe that israel should be stopped immediately because this war could escalate into a broader war in the region and

we have seen that the people of pakistan were very happy when iran attacked a retaliatory attack on israel with rockets and that attack was held by the pakistani people that at least there is a one country in the world that who is, i mean confronting with this zoinist regime, so at the moment we have seen that the people are on the streets in karachi as well as for tomorrow we have to cover the rallies in islamabad as well, the jamaat islami of pakistan which is the largest religio political party of pakistan, which is holding the rally right now in karachi as well as they have rallies for. in islamabad tomorrow they will hold rays across islamabad in rawalpindi and other cities and other right groups are also organizing the rallies

to mark the anniversary of israeli massaker in gaza. okay and nasir tell us about the senament there also among the pakistanis when they heard uh the news of iran uh launch. operation trw true promise too, you know 180 missiles were directed at the israeli regime with different targets, military intelligence targets and we had pictures from the across the world, especially in in the west asia region all and elsewhere that people were so happy about hearing the news, yeah definitely as i told you earlier that uh "the sentiments in pakistan are very high because people believe that iran is the only country from day one who is opposing these genocidal actions of israels in gaza and iran is the

only country which is raising voice for the oppressed people of gaza in forefront you know when the news was heard that iran has launched this successful attacks on israel in retaliation this was..." i mean this news was spread on all social media platforms, people were congratulating each other and hailing the iran stance on against israel on this issue. people believe that the iranian nation, despite all those sanctions, they are standing against the oppressors and they are raising the voices and especially in last last friday we we have heard the speech of... the supreme leader in which he he he he has delivered a sermon on friday and he pointed

out about the unity of muslim and this speech was also held in pakistan and people were discussing it on all social media platforms as well as in gatherings so yes of course the iranian attack on israel was eminent and the people of pakistan backed this attack and they are very... in it right, nasir, you've been reporting different events, including the some of the rallies that we're now airing here on press tv, now this belongs to karache, i wonder if you see this huge gathering of people in in karache against israel and condemming what it is doing against palestines and lebanese these days and nasar when you talk to when when you covering this forest be live or when you're filing us reports, you talk to the ralliers, talk to the protesters and organizers, tell us what kind of people they are, do you see people from all walks of life, there some

some only students or only people belonging to guilds or it's people from different walks of life in pakistan, and also tell us about their demands, yeah, you know, as i told you earlier that on this issue, the people of pakist istan are united, there is no difference of opinion about this single agenda that the israel is killing people in gaza on daily basis, whether it's students, whether it's religious groups, whether it's political groups, all are united on the same page, and we have seen that the government of pakistan is also raising its voice on the international levels, as we have see, we have seen that the prime minister. of pakistan, shahbaz sharif delivered his speech at the at un general assembly and it it was his, he was very clear on it that this war should be

stopped. to sentiments of the people of pakistan about this gaza issue is very clear, they they they don't have any difference of opinion on this issue, especially although the people of pakistan are confronting with so many you know fronts at the moment, there is poverty in the country, there is lack of security as well and but at the same time when it comes to the issue of gaza, people are united on that issue. and we have seen that the students of the universities were coming on the street, people, mean people from religious groups coming on the streets, we have seen that the right activist who who have been holding several protest demonstration in these in in this one year, especially this issue of gaza was you know surfaced, so they are very clear on one thing that that who should stop this war, because

there is case in international court of justice, un has passed resolutions, then what has left behind that how who will come forward to tell the world that this massacer should be stopped? so this question was frequently, we have heard from the different forums in pakistan, especially the students, they are very concerned about the women in pakistan are very concerned about those their counterparts in gaza, especially on the deaths of tens of thousands of children in gaza, people are oppressed, people are very sad on this, so they are frequently asking the international bodies to come forward and and make sease fire possible in gaza, because this genocide is not stopping, israel is spreading its war in the region as well, now

they are... targeting the lebanese people almost on daily basis, tens of thousands of civilians have been killed in the middle east since israel has launched its military campaign in gaza, so the people of pakistan are very concerned about the happenings in gaza, and nasir, is it, i know pakistan is the muslim majority country, but you also have minorities among you, i believe, so do they also... share the same viewpoint as the majority of people in pakistan share regarding the palestinians, the lebanese and the crimes being committed against them by israel. yeah, definitely, mr. najfi, we have seen that, i will tell you story about the christmas, i have covered this story, the christian community living in pakistan, they dedicated their...